I used MS Frontpage 15 years ago successfully and with ease to do my simple sites. I now want to start doing some simple web sites again, but found MS Expression Web 4 USER-unfriendly for a stupid person like me. There are hundreds of others available like WIX, Simplesite, Joomla, Wordpress, Dreamweaver ….. but I would like to use FP again if possible. That way I can design the site off-line without knowing any codes and file on my hard drive and RETRIEVE whenever I need upgrading or to use it as starting template for more sites. If MS Frontpage is now unobtainable, what is the closest to that - measured in simplicity? I prefer to pay and not get something for free - just sceptical about free stuff :-(
My laptop is Windows 7 driven with Office 2010.
Thanx
The closest thing I can think of to Frontpage would be Kompozer: http://kompozer.net/ although Expression Web can do a lot more.

That said, building websites in desktop software like this is an extremely OLD fashioned way of doing things as the sites are very inflexible if you wanted to add in any sort of fancy features.  Nowdays using a content management system (CMS) such as Drupal, Wordpress or Joomla is a much more common and flexible way to build a website, for example, if you wanted to add a photo gallery or user comment system, you can just get a plugin for the CMS you are using.

Of course you would still need a template that could still be built with software like Kompozer or Frontpage if this is what you prefer to do over the more common method of just writing the HTML and CSS code by hand.Thanx Camerongray for your response. I follow half of what you are saying  since my BACKGROUND knowledge of web building is practically zero. I started working with WIX now and getting along somehow. I hope this was what you meant by the more modern way?
Will keep you posted
Take CARE and thanx again